Each Friday, we run a quiz in the Daily Brew, our daily politics newsletter, on a topic we covered the previous week. Click here to subscribe, and we'll send you three stories each weekday morning that you won't find anywhere else. The trivia question below was featured in the Friday, May 31, edition.

This week's question was, How many states are holding state supreme court elections this year?

In the Wednesday Brew, we previewed Montana’s June 4 primaries, including the nonpartisan races for two seats on the state’s supreme court.

State supreme court elections often receive less attention during busy election cycles compared to those for the White House, Congress, or even governor. However, the country’s 52 state courts of last resort (Texas and Oklahoma have two supreme courts) play a significant role in shaping the laws and policies in each state, including issues related to redistricting, abortion, and elections.

Our coverage goes beyond all state supreme court elections. In 2020, for example, we released Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a unique study to discern the partisan balance on each of the country’s courts of last resort. Of the 341 justices we studied at the time, 52.5% recorded Republican Confidence Scores, 33.1% recorded Democratic Confidence Scores, and 14.4% recorded Indeterminate Confidence Scores. You can read that study here.

How many states are holding state supreme court elections in 2024?

• 21
• 13
• 42
• 33

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